It is no longer news that fire razed down a section of the popular Ibo market in Warri Saturday June 15, but the manner in which the inferno started may not have been reported.
Our Correspondents who were at the scene of the fire which started about 1.30pm on the fateful day report that the fire started from a generator cable connected to a shop change-over switch. It was gathered that the sales boy of the tiny shop where the fire started wanted to turn the change-over to a generator line ostensibly to light up the shop for a customer when he suddenly noticed that the generator cable connecting the change-over switch was cut up with fire. He immediately reached out to the nearest sachet water on the shop and poured it on the change-over switch which was close to an air conditioner and that action increased the volume as well as intensity of the raging flame.
Before men of the Delta State Fire Service and Transition Committee Chairman of Warri South local government, Dr. Augustine Uroye could reach the scene of the fire few minutes later, all the front and back shops at the Okere road round-about section of the Ibo market were completely razed down, leaving goods such as clothes, shoes, belts, wristwatches and other valuables worth millions of naira destroyed.
Feelers say some of the affected traders only returned from market the previous day after shopping for new wares.
As at the time of filing this report the market union was yet to respond to the development.
In a related development, an area in Egbokodo near Ubeji, Warri allegedly used by illegal bunkerers reportedly caught fire at about 6.00am same day and it took the efforts of people around to put off the fire and stopped it from spreading to a nearby filling station as well as residential areas before fire service men reached the scene.
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